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Jump to: navigation, searchThe Moorish Science Temple of Americais a religious organiationfounded in !"!# b$ Noble Drew Ali%

&ts main tenet was that African Americanswere descended from the 'oorsand thus were originall$

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! Noble Drew Ali*s beginnings

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+%! -arl$ histor$

+%+ .chism and the death of Drew Ali

+%# The !"#/*s

+%0 12& surveillance

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0 The 3rophet*s teachings

4 The 3rophet*s practices

5 Notes

6 References

7 -8ternal lin9s

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Timoth$ Drew was born on Januar$ 7 !775 inNorth ?hen & was born, it turned blac9 dar9 in the

da$time% The people put their hoes down and came out of the fields%@citation neededis mother apparentl$ died while Drew was a $oung bo$, and left him to an abusive aunt%0According to

the 'oorish .cience account, at the age of !5 he befriended a band of Roma(g$psies) with whom he

traveled the world,4although other accounts state he shipped out on a merchant seaman, became a

railwa$ e8pressman,5or ;oined a circusand became a stage magician%6.ome researchers wonder

whether Drew actuall$ left the .tates at all%7&t as s#pposedly d#rin" these tra$els that he met the hi"h priestof an '"yptianc#ltof ma"ic( &n

one $ersion of Dre!s bio"raphy, the leader sa him as a reincarnation of the fo#nder of the c#lt,while in others he considered him a reincarnation of Jesus% Accordin" to the bio"raphy, the c#lt trainedhim in mysticismand bestoed #pon him a lost $ersion of the life of )es#s%"

This te8t came to be 9nown as the ol$ Boran of the 'oorish .cience Temple of America(note that thiste8t is never spelled Qur'an)% &t is also 9nown, somewhat more informall$, as the

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